When to use Child Work Orders, Tasks and the Multi Asset Location Table on Work Orders in Maximo In my blog entry this week I wanted to talk about the different ways you can utilize work orders to create projects or work packages in Maximo. The first question people tend to ask is: Should I use Child Work Orders, Tasks or this new Multi Asset/Location table? This is a very good question and the answer to this question depends on a number of factors. Let’s discuss those factors. When you have a large amount of work that needs to be done and you... [More]

Hi there, I decided to check in and throw my 2 cents out there on a topic that I think a lot of people might benefit from and that's using Escalations in Maximo. The Escalations application first came onto the Maximo scene with version 6 and has developed into a powerful and extremely useful tool that can help to solve many problems. In Maximo 7 and beyond, escalations can be used against pretty much any Maximo object. There are many very helpful uses for escalations..... - Monitoring / reporting on various time... [More]

The Nightmare of Accidentally Closed Work Orders How do I stop my users from accidentally closing their work orders? I had a user who accidentally closed 350 work orders, what should I do? How can I un-close a work order? I get these kinds of questions all the time. The problem here is closed work orders are closed. We have a closed status for a reason. Its meant to say this work order is done and I don’t want anyone making any more changes to it. But what about human error? People make mistakes, right? Sure they do.... [More]

When changing the status of the Work Order from the change status dialog you might be asking yourself why the notification is not working. The SMTP properties are properly set and the e-mail address looks good in the Notification E-mail field. So, what is wrong? The notification will only be sent if the 'Change work order status in back ground ' checkbox is checked. Now the notification will be sent to the e-mail as expected noting that the status has been changed.

Have you ever wondered or felt
like you have been backed into a corner and couldn't get out? Well maybe you
have, but probably not when dealing with Maximo. Maximo is highly customizable
and if you ever thought that you couldn't do something in Maximo, you were
probably wrong. There is usually a way to accomplish most things you're looking
to accomplish. Either via custom code, or through front end customizations. Have you ever wondered how you could manipulate the PM Work
Order Generation crontask to execute PM's for certain sites? As... [More]

Welcome to the EAM Corner!!!! My name is Ghazala and I work in level 2 support for IBM on the EAM product. This blog series will all be helpful tips, tricks and how-to's on Maximo EAM . Be sure to follow me on DeveloperWorks ---------> Click here to follow me on DeveloperWorks! Have you ever had an issue in the Preventive Maintenance application, when generating a work order, on a location containing only one asset, the work order is being generated for both the location... [More]

I was speaking with a customer and they had a few questions about scheduling work in Maximo. They had noticed that when they scheduled work, Maximo would schedule working during a non-working time when a task was present. This is because the interruptible flag is not being used. Once the flag is set, Maximo will only schedule work during working hours defined as per your calendar. On the main work order tab, there is an interruptible field on screen by default, there is none for the task. Task can be made to be interruptible as well, it just... [More]

WMATL is a status used on work orders to indicate the lack of availability of planned material. Users plans for material on the plans tab, material subtab, users add the quantity needed and storeroom the item will be sourced from. The status of the work order is then changed to approved, at this time the code fires off and does a few checks. Based on the quantity planned for being more than the balance on hand maximo will change the work order status to WMATL and not to approved. If that is not current happening then there may be a setup... [More]

Have you tried report downtime in Workorder Tracking application and the hours field was not accepting the correct downtime or not displaying the correct downtime? Today I have a tip about that. Unlike Person records, Asset records do not contain a field to specify the Asset's time zone. So, when the Asset's Calendar and Shift are evaluated to calculate downtime, that evaluation must assume that the Calendar and Shift have been entered to describe the Asset's available hours in the database server's time zone. For... [More]

When you try to delete or remove tasks from a work order already saved, the following error message is displayed: "BMXAA0029E - You are not authorized to perform this action for this record. Contact your system administrator to request changes to your authorization." You probably should not have permission to delete records in one or more security groups Steps to reproduce the problem: 1) Create security group "GROUP_A" “Independent of Other Groups?”- Checked Site:... [More]

As Andy Williams sang, "It's the most wonderful time of the year", the seasons are changing, the leaves are falling and Maximo year end work needs to be done. As we all know Maximo is as good as the data we have and certain things need to be reviewed to make sure we have the most up to date data. Below is a quick breakdown of the different applications that have a big influence on your year end data. 1. Work Order Tracking. Completing and closing work orders is a very crucial step in updating cost against assets in Maximo. All the... [More]

In the following example, I will show you how you can create a simple object structure to import multiple work assets to an existing data sheet. The Data Sheet Template application is installed with the installation of the Calibration offering. 1. Navigate to the object structure application and create a new object structure. Here is my object structure: Parent: PLUSDSPLAN Child: PLUSDSPLAN/PLUSCDSASSETLINK The processing order for the parent and child above is set to 1. The relationship I used is:... [More]

A new YouTube video has been released Maximo 7.5 Using the WorkLight Config Tool to deploy AnywhereWorkManager.war to WebSphere This video demonstrates how to deploy the war file using the workLight Config Tool You can view the video here - https://youtu.be/a7tlR-91SC4

As any long time application user in Maximo knows, status changes can be unforgiving at times. Change a record to a status that causes it to go into history too soon and it's problems. Status changes in Maximo always tend to call huge amounts of logic to be executed when a change happens and reverting back is not always that easy. For instance, when a work order is changed to closed from approved, the logic called is huge. Checks are done against the inventory table, PO tables, Labor tables just to mention a few. A historied record... [More]